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Nopales Cactus Prickly Pear Flowers

Wonderful edible Cactus in my desert garden. These flowers will make delicious "Prickly Pears," The new pads (lower right) taste like asparagus when fried in olive oil.

 

Edible cactus is also known as nopales (no-PAHles), nopalitos or cactus pads. This vegetable is popular in Mexico and other Central American countries, the Middle East and Europe. Grows in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. It is used by Arizona archeologists to locate ancient human habitats, since it was cultivated...

 

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Uploaded on April 21, 2010
Taken on April 14, 2010